So is it a Good Thing that Lady Gaga Never went to Space?

[27monster27 12,348]

For those unaware, Lady Gaga was supposed to go to space in 2015. This was announced in late-2013 in conjunction with the flying dress demonstration. Lady Gaga was supposed to be the first person to perform in space, but this all fell apart because the rocket she would've used exploded on a test flight.

Now, considering the severe backlash to Katy Perry going to space, is it for the better? I ask this as a question because of the different cultural space at the time. People were not as class-conscious in 2015 as they would be in 2025, and Lady Gaga just by virtue of who she is would force anyone to let her stay in space for way longer than 10 minutes and do an all out fully funded performance.

Personally, even with the better things going for her I still think it's better that she didn't.  This has been one of the strongest backlash moments I've ever seen, and while Lady Gaga improved her reputation by mid-2015 with C2C and The Sound of Music tribute but she still had a LONG way to go.

[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,267]

Yes. It would've been camp back then, but it would be cringe now.

[PartySick 153,094]

2015 was before this whole "eat the rich and break their toys" thing went mainstream.

In 2015 the Titan sub implosion would have been a tragedy and Luigi would be a dangerous criminal.

Gaga's rep would have been fine as far as that. People would have probably even thought it was cool. She probably would have made some corny jokes up there and done generally endearing things.

Still glad she didn't do it though

[Nite 5,291]

For me the bitter taste isn't even the space part, it's the way it's marketed and the absurdly ridiculous comments.

"It won't be about me; it will be about this beautiful Earth. I think from up there, we will think, 'Oh my God, we have to protect our mother.'"

"It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging."

"This is all for the benefit of Earth."

That ridiculous Elle cover trying to market it as some kind of feminist stint that would encourage women to pursue STEM fields if they send a bunch of rich female celebrities into space in a self-flying capsule.

All while we have actual female astronauts like Suni Williams who've been educating people on eye level for years.

 

Gaga wasn't trying to make her idea about anything like this. Although I agree it's better that she didn't in the long run anyway.

Edited Wednesday at 05:32 PM by Nite

[popkulture 56]

Awful idea probably as an aftermath of Tr*y Carter. I'm glad it never happened. It sounds like a big PR stunt to get her to be relevant again (keeping in mind the context of 2013....). I mean, the Katy thing was a huge PR stunt for BO. And left a bad taste in the mouths of the GP. 

[RAMROD 107,369]

The attitude is different in 2015, I don't think Gaga will get backlash at all if that is happening then. 

[Economy 48,779]

I think the criticism would have been less severe as the hate towards the rich for having too much and wasting so much money on stunts like this has grown way more since then

 

Also she was gonna perform whicj would have added some cool element to it. Katy just went basically

 

That said im sure shed still have gotten some hate but i think the reaction woulda been more mixed

Edited Wednesday at 06:20 PM by Economy

[nATAH 46,113]

if she actually performed a decent 3-4 song set that ended with a good cover of a classic hit, i think people would actually enjoy how cool that is

but now that attitude has changed, i wonder if it would be getting dragged alongside katy...

[27monster27 12,348]

2 hours ago, Nite said:

For me the bitter taste isn't even the space part, it's the way it's marketed and the absurdly ridiculous comments.

"It won't be about me; it will be about this beautiful Earth. I think from up there, we will think, 'Oh my God, we have to protect our mother.'"

"It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging."

"This is all for the benefit of Earth."

That ridiculous Elle cover trying to market it as some kind of feminist stint that would encourage women to pursue STEM fields if they send a bunch of rich female celebrities into space in a self-flying capsule.

All while we have actual female astronauts like Suni Williams who've been educating people on eye level for years.

 

Gaga wasn't trying to make her idea about anything like this. Although I agree it's better that she didn't in the long run anyway.

This is what I've been thinking. I personally liked the all female passengers and especially the racial diversity (I wish people would at least give credit for the latter) was nice, but there were better ways to do it. Have Katy work alongside people like Suni Williams to directly spotlight women working in space and show how any woman can aspire to do it regardless of prior occupation.

If she wasn't gonna do much of anything there, then just do what some celebrities have done where they just say "hey I'm going to space" and that's it. Don't advertise it as something huge when it's a small trip lol.

[River 111,982]

she most likely would explode or something, it was very unsafe back then, I think the spaceship exploded like a month earlier lol

[PartySick 153,094]

2 hours ago, nATAH said:

if she actually performed a decent 3-4 song set that ended with a good cover of a classic hit, i think people would actually enjoy how cool that is

but now that attitude has changed, i wonder if it would be getting dragged alongside katy...

See, had Katy actually gone into orbit for a couple of hours and sang some songs in a small zero-g type concert, it would have been incredible

At least there would have been a point

But it was basically just a rollercoaster only millionaires can afford lmao

[Kayi 2,381]

I'm no longer on Twitter, I rarely use TikTok... Is the backlash this big ? 

I mean is it just the stans or it's the GP that hate on Katy ? 

[MadArchitect 817]

Im not sure, The blue origin Backlash was linked of it being billionaire Jeff Bezos's company and how he's been in so much controversies for exploiting workers and having unethical enviromental practices, plus also the mission just being a joyride full of celebrities with no other intent than fulfill their own needs for shallow spiritual awakening and personal ambitions. His company is partly funded by NASA and hence the US government, so of course it doesn't sit well with people that taxes are going towards funding rich celebrities joyrides, specially now with trump's administration and how he's cutting fundings for actual scientific and medical research organizations directed to help regular people and people in need, and just the overall economic crisis the US is falling deeper. So context is important.

I was not around at the time, does anybody have more information about the mission Gaga was involved back then? what was the company? who was funding it? what was the goal? which was the crew, all the details, im curios, i was not a little monster back then.

Edited Wednesday at 09:22 PM by MadArchitect

[robotvoiceinalice 1,457]

i doubt she would have received a lot of hate for it, yeah sure it would have been during ARTPOP which was the start of things going down which would have meant some hate but 2013 was a different time and she would have been called attention grabbing back then but i think that would have been it. or it may have even been something that boosted her in a way and she would have linked it to ARTPOP

had she done it now with the world going against billionaires in a Donald Trump America and Ellon Musk being in gov too, things would be different which is where Katy is at atm. not to mention she was already dragged for the failed comeback album that was 143 and for working with Dr. L*ke.  

so yeah i think what we are seeing is a combination of the times we live in interms of social and political, and the hate around Katy since the release of 143 which Gaga wouldn't of had back in 2013/14

[StrawberryBlond 14,558]

For her personally, of course, because the shuttle she was supposed to go on exploded at the time. Now knowing that what Katy went through was what Gaga would be experiencing if she did it today, I'm glad it never happened. Totally pointless and a public backlash to boot, I'm glad that JFAD has been as bad as backlash has been recently and people have moved on from that now. It was once cool to imagine Gaga going into space and potentially singing there too but if this Blue Origin flight was any indication about what it would involve in 2025, then they can keep it. I'd always rather Gaga was making music-based achievements anyway.